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The TruTV Crime Library, via its "Weirdest Wills" feature, highlights the will of Iowa attorney T.M. Zink, who died in 1930 and left $35,000 in a 75-year trust for the construction of a "womanless library."

"Zink ... had such a strong disdain for women that he wished to use his savings to establish a library that would allow no works by female authors or artists, and would prohibit female patrons. In his will, Zink stipulated that his $35,000 be placed in a trust for 75 years, and the accumulated sum be used to build the Zink Womanless Library, where every entrance would bear a sign with the words 'No Women Allowed.' Zink's daughter, who was left $5 in the same will, challenged it successfully, and the female-free learning zone was never built."